Charles Reznikoff
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Poems 1918-1936
Rhythms (1918)
1) The stars are hidden
2) The dead are walking silently
3) So one day, tired of the sky and host of stars
4) I step into the fishy pool
5) The dead man lies in the street
6) They dug her grave so deep
7) On Brooklyn Bridge I saw a man drop dead
8) I met in a merchant’s place
9) The shopgirls leave their work
10) Hair and faces glossy with sweat in August
11) I walked through the lonely marsh
12) Wringing, wringing his pierced hands
13) Romance
14) How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted
15) Her unkindliness is like the sun
16) The fingers of your thoughts
17) When you sang moving your body proudly
18) The sea’s white teeth
19) My work done, I lean on the window-sill,
Rhythms II (1919)
1) I have not even been in the fields
2) Vaudeville
3) I knocked. A strange voice answered
4) I look across the housetops
5) The winter afternoon darkens
6) Stubborn flies buzzing
7) Scrubwoman
8) In the shop, she, her mother, and grandmother
9) The Idiot
10) On the kitchen shelf the dusty medicine bottles
11) She who worked patiently
12) Beggars about the streets
13) The Park in Winter
14) Dark early and only the river shines
15) Epidemic
16) Shadows, mice whisk over the unswept floor
17) The sandwiches are elaborate affairs
18) The imperious dawn comes
19) We heard no step in the hall
20) A white curtain turning in an open window
21) The horses keep tossing their heads
22) Twilight
Poems (1920)
(1 - 9)
10) Sleepless, breathing the black air
11) She sat by the window
12) The house was pitch-dark
13) From where she lay
(14 - 30)
Uriel Accosta (1921)
(1 - 2)
(3 - 5)
(6 - 9)
(10 - 13)
(14 - 18)
19) He showed me the album.
20) It had long been dark
21) Grandfather was growing blind.
(22 - 23)
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(26 - 27)
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31) The Belly
32)
33)
34) Provided For
35) A Son with a Future - 36
37) A Deserter
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(40 - 41)
42) Her father carved umbrella handles
43) The Lawyer
44) Both daughters had married well
45) He had a house of his own and a store
46) When the club met in her home
47) The Doctor’s Wife
48) The shoemaker sat in the cellar’s dusk
Five Groups of Verse (1927)
(1 - 2)
(5 - 8)
(9 - 11)
(12 - 13)
(14 - 19)
20)
Jerusalem the Golden (1934)
1) The Hebrew of your poets, Zion
2) Hellenist
(3 - 4)
(5 - 7)
(8 - 10)
(11 - 12)
(13) On this beach the waves are never high
(14 - 15)
(16 - 18)
(19 - 20)
(21 - 23)
(24 - 29)
(30 - 32)
(33 - 36)
(37 - 40)
(41 - 43)
44) Lament of the Jewish Women for Tammuz
(45 - 48)
(49 - 52)
53 Suburban River: Winter
(54 - 56)
(57)
(58 - 60)
(61 - 63)
(64 - 66)
(67 - 71)
(72 - 73)
74) The English in Virginia, April 1607
78) Luzzato Padua 1727
79) Jerusalem the Golden
Separate Way (1936)
1) Heart and Clock
2) Malicious women
Epitaph
IV
Separate Way
Walking and Watching
Poems 1937-1975
Inscriptions: 1944-1956
Te Deum
Vocalist - Chris Daniels
Poem Source: Poems, 1918-1975 - The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff - Black Sparrow Press -1989
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